Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.

At the heart of the Bot Framework are two SDKs, one for use with .Net and one building on the open source cross-platform JavaScript-based Node.js. There’s also a set of RESTful APIs for building ...

Microsoft showcased its latest chatbot-oriented integration toolset at its San Francisco Build conference. The Microsoft Bot Framework allows every developer to integrate natural language ...

The real key is the rollout of its Microsoft Bot Framework, a service and collection of APIs that developers can use while building bots.

But Facebook is adopting a new strategy with the Bot Engine. If developers embrace the framework, Messenger users are going to get a variety of small specialized bots. “Send receive API is more ...

Since Microsoft announced the Bot Framework at its 2016 developer conference, over 130,000 developers have signed up to use it. The company is now expanding it further, with new capabilities.

Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, has changed his previous decision to charge developers for using the platform's API. Musk on Sunday announced a free write-only access API for bots providing good content.

The Microsoft Bot Framework will also create chatbots that can integrate into a range of platforms, including Skype, Slack, Telegram, email, and the web.